For those who may not have heard about it. http://code.google.com/p/the-cassandra-project/ http://www.slideshare.net/jhammerb/data-presentations-cassandra-sigmod/
Cassandra is another Bigtable clone more or less but eschews an explicit
coordinator (Bigtable's Chubby, HBase's HMaster, Hypertable's Hyperspace) for a
P2P/DHT approach for data distribution and location and for availability.
- Andy
